. katie liked them too. jim wants a hot dog. >> what is wrong with your husband? he wants a hot dog in new orleans? there is jambalaya and wonderful seafood. >> he's van nilla. he's easy. it's a good thing. >> we have fun with the family today. you just saw the video. check out the picture i tweeted. we're keeping you up to date with happenings. you can follow me on twitter at larry beil abc 7. i've got to tell you on the morning show, is intent on taking twitter down. of the things you can do in new orleans and eat, jim harbaugh wants a hot dog, okay sni caught wupt coach hours later. he never got the hot dog. he had to settle for lasagne. we saw the lighter side of jim harbaugh mixing with family and friends. a nice treat. he took the kids back to look at the kitchen to see how beignets were made. let's say you don't want a hot dog. like most everybody else here. food options are endless in the city of new orleans. with more on that we go to wayne freedman. how are you doing, wayne? >> we're on canal and bourbon street. we're on the corner of bourbon and canal street. but you know, i

slice of life in new orleans, including a street performer who had a close encounter with jim harbaugh. ken? >> reporter: frank, we are live on bourbon street, the hurricanes are flowing, the music is blasting and the biz easy is partying -- big easy is partying six days before super bowl sunday. >> reporter: like a team horn from a paddle boat new orleans is loud, proud and in some cases loving the 9ers. [ music playing ] >> 9ers fan. >> reporter: this performer is a san francisco native. >> borne and raised in san francisco. went to balboa high school. >> reporter: just got the thrill of his life. jim harbaugh stopped by to say high and sign his 9er heart. >> look behind you. i looked and i was like, bam! [ laughter ] >> i was like oh! come here, now. let me get this signature. >> the 49ers are favored to win the super bowl but here there are ways to find an edge. >> things can be done for athletic comtitian to kill results -- competition to kill results. >> reporter: does it involve human sacrifice? [ laughter ] >> no, no. >> reporter: life again on bourbon street. three mo

. brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> hey jim congratulations. >> that was jon harbaugh to his brother before tonight's ball game. the 49ers had just beaten the falcons and now they are headed to new orleans for a family reunion. ray rice takes it left side. he goes in for the touchdown and the ravens a 7-3 early lead. the patriots got it back. he finds wes welker. 10-7, new england. 13-7, patriots at the half. flacco t0o bolden. ravens up 21-13. then flacco again. ravens led it 28-14. you can't criticize him anymore. flacco can play. brady throws it. the ball is picked off and ball game 28-13 and ray lewis is still playing, and harbaugh vs. harbaugh in the superbowl. >> we want to thank you to be in this position.we have we had adverse moments. to god be the glory man. we did what people said we wouldn't do. >> what can you say about being down six? what did you say to each other. >> we knew we had one half left and we had to get it together and put together a better game plan. >> what a great moment. we've had -- you've heard so much inspirational stuff and started off the te

tackles crime before the super bowl arrives. jim axelrod shows us how. and intrigue at the bolshoi. charlie d'agata in moscow on a vicious attack at the world's most famous ballet company. >> this is terrible. this is corruption and this is criminal. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was not a close call for us today. the most amazing story that we saw hands down involves a courageous young u.s. army sergeant severely wounded in iraq and the amazing surgery that gave him arms-- two real human arms. the operation on 26-year-old sergeant brendan marrocco of new york was performed in december but today we got our first look at the results. david martin has the story. >> reporter: when brendan marrocco moved his arms today he made medical history. >> i feel like i'm getting a second chance to start over after i got hurt. >> reporter: he was gesturing with transplanted arms-- not prosthetic arms but real arms from an anonymous donor who died. >> it feels amazing. it's something that i was waiting for for a long time

>> 49ers touch down in new orleans! the players along with coach jim harbaugh and his kids are in new orleans tonight. preparing for superbowl 47. just 7 days away! they landed at about 7pm. five o'clock our time. you can see the players. staff and famlies deplaning. the entrie crew loaded into the buses heading for san jose airport earlier today you can see video of the event behind me. gabe slate was there at the team's santa clara headquarters where hard core fans lined up to see the team off. (cheers & applause) >> reporter: these fans gathered around this, and entrance. hoping to see the players boat onto the bus but they had other plans that to keep a tight schedule. they only allowed the media and in the shadow of the news stadium, there are police, public- relations and the buses were in this area. they did not have time. however, the team did it seem up beat. colin kaepernick had a high end headphones, and a winter cap. they decided that they would drive the five buses beyond the crowd. and that was cool. the fans loved it. hundreds cheered. they did not see between these

county executive accused of misconduct. good afternoon, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm barbara harrison in for pat lawson muse. let's head straight to keith russell. he is at the live december week more on this breaking story. >> this news just came in. the judge just delivered his verdict. he found leopold guilty of one count of using his police security detail for political and campaign activities. leopold was accused of asking his police security detail to stay on lookout while he had sex in a local public parking garage. collect campaign funds and put up signs. the judge ruled that using the officers as lookoutnot constitute criminal conduct in office. news4's chris gordon is in the courtroom and will have more information on this just in. the john leopold conviction. we will have much more, clawing live report on news4. that's the latest for now at the live desk. >>> to a pretty spiinspiring si. >> doctors managed an historic feat. a double arm transplant on a wounded soldier. the key in this surgery may have been his attitude. erika edwards has his story now. >> you owe m

is history assassinating people who go against the central banks you see in jim in north j.f.k. in the u.s. you want to get to the central banks and in sixty three he was taken out so no bernanke he is not going to challenge the paper printers because he doesn't want to end up you know writing in an open top of the article somewhere where the brains splattered all over his wife you know that's not a pleasant ending for a central banker is it but well that's a good point because this guy had been operating takahashi had been operating this extreme money printing experiment for four years before he got killed by the military. but you know they were fine with it until he tried to impose austerity upon them upon their pay so this is you know this is one thing we've always said is that the millionaires versus the billionaires versus the trillionaire is and once they start fighting each other once they have to give up their bonuses their city bonuses or whatever it is it could you could see the beginning of these elite starting to assassinate each other well we can only hope. well speaki

be my uncle. jim here is a fun fact for you. >> yes? >> stephanie: the historic warner theater. and i was reading kirk douglas' book on the plane, and spartacus opened at the warner theater. >> oh wow. >> kind of a random book to read on a plane. >> stephanie: listen kirk douglas watches and think i'm [ inaudible ]. >> okay. >> stephanie: and he signed the book to me and he said -- >> i'm spartacus. >> stephanie: he thinks i'm beautiful and then when david told him i'm gay he said what! [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> stephanie: he signed my book to a beautiful girl who is also smart. >> okay. >> stephanie: i think it was one anecdote about the warner theater. >> very cool. >> stephanie: also here is another fun fact. alan grayson who was our celebrity on panel. he got a standing ovation for walking and sitting when he was in the theater, so did jfk. and the guy he was with said they are applauding you even in the dark. >> amazing. that charisma just glows in the dark. >> stephanie: exactly. he was presidential glow stick. >> and he reenacted the marilyn monroe thing with melissa fitzgera

new jane crow. >> and jane crow, not jim crow, jane crow meaning? >> you look at the abortion issue, the so-called personhood measures and anti-abortion measures, what they are really doing is creating precedent for a permanent underclass of all women. we have seen that women are being arrested, detained, forcibly subjected to medical interventions disproportionately so african-american women, disproportionately in the south. and, again, it's under the guise of being just about abortion. it's really about creating a set of precedents that would allow the state to control, surveil, and punish a woman from the moment she conceives. >> and you have been, frankly, losing in state after state, right? i mean, there are now 92 or 94 more provisions on state laws than existed several years ago. >> and i think the anti-choice movement is getting creative. what we saw recently in virginia and we saw it in a federal level but they're now doing this on a state level are things like the prenatal nondiscrimination act, which is an effort to ban race selective or sex selective abortion, and this i

right is jim lehrer, who has done 12 debates. nobody will catch up to that. jim is and prolific author and winner of every prize in journalism. to my left, bob schieffer, anchor of "face the nation" and an author and winner of many journalism awards, and martha raddatz, the chief global affairs correspondent. she spent a lot of time in iraq and afghanistan and winner of many prizes for her reporting. candy crowley cannot be with us because of a family emergency. we send our best to her. jim and bob have done this debate stuff before. for martha, it was a first appearance. you have done so many interviews in your career. was this any different? >> not at all. [applause] [laughter] >> janet brown called me. i said, i'll take a vacation and go do the debates. it was so different. i was not covering the campaign. i was running around the world. i basically crammed into nothing but study -- and did nothing but study, like studying for the sats, and then taking them in front of millions of people. [laughter] when i first got the call, i was so out of the loop, with how they do it that i reme

got the best of his brother jim last year in their first meeting. he still has a way to go to even the score from some of their battles growing up. >> the team we're playing is built the same way. we have respect for the 49ers for their coach, coaching staff, players. i expect it to be played in that way. >> the ravens team is respectful of its opponents and the opponents respect them, as well. >>> baltimore ravens and the san francisco 49ers will be heading off in just a few days, frank. we're excited. >> you know it's going to be fun. i guess on friday the two coaches will be side by side holding dual press conferences. to have brother against brother, that's going to be kind of neat. >> reporter: can you imagine what the holidays are like at their parents' house, you know? >> it's going to be tough for the parents because they are going to be elated for one son and the other one, we're sorry but that's the way it goes. >> reporter: oh, well. okay. >> we'll see you in a couple of minutes. >>> 6:05 now. san francisco's mayor is hoping to rally support for his crackdown on heavy dr

fans waited to catch a glimpse of the players as they drove by. colin kaepernick had fun. coach jim harbaugh keeping a lower profile. the coach all business right now. fans didn't seem to mind. they just wanted to wish their teams the best of luck. >> doing what you're doing, you got great fans cheering you on. >> good luck and play hard. don't give up on yourself. >> those fans did their best to show their love as the buses finally rolled by beginning a journey hopefully to a big super bowl winner on sunday. 9ers did hold a press conference upon arriving in new orleans. here's some sound. >> did you think that the offensive college was going to work in the nfl? >> i thought it would work to some extent. i didn't think it was something you could run every play. there's too many good athletes on defense at this level. >> colin work the beanie there. kaepernick taking questions from the reporters. he is coming off the plane right there. team very focused. we'll hear from coach harbaugh coming up. michelle has been out in the big easy, you landed saturday night. you have been eating al

their heads somewhere else. it's trough. >> jim, thanks for coming on. we'll see you on the set in pebble. >> thank you for having me here. i appreciate it. >> thank you for coming. join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" is next. >>> good wednesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm melissa lee, with carl quintanilla, jim cramer and david faber here at the new york stock exchange. take a look at u.s. futures. we should note the dow is posting its bst january in 17 years. we are looking to go higher on the dow here. investors are awaiting the house vote this afternoon on postponing the debt ceiling. news in europe, david cameron vowing a referendum on whether britain remains in the eu. in japan, longest losing streak in two months. china awaits data, that's out tonight. the road map in the u.s. starts off at the golden arches. u.s. same-store sales up 9% for mcdonald's, helped by the dollar menu and mcrib. >> ibm and google surging premarket. google gets its price target raised by six firms this morning on better than expected earnings. >> coach getting pummeled this

. we have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three moderatores of the 2012 debate. to my right is jim lehhrer, who has done 12 debates. nobody will catch up to that. the most honored former anchor and prolific author and winner of every prize in journalism. to my left, bob schieffer, anchor of "face the nation" and an author and winner of many journalism awards, and martha raddatz, the chief global affairs correspondent. she spent a lot of time in iraq and afghanistan and winner of many prizes for her reporting. candy crowley cannot be with us because of a family political e. we send our best to her. jim and bob have done this debate stuff before. for martha, it was a first appearance. you have done so many interviews in your career. was this any different? >> not at all. [applause] [laughter] >> janet brown called me. i said, i'll take a vacation and go do the debates. it was so different. i was not covering the campaign. i was running around the world. i basically crammed into nothing but study -- and did nothing but study, like studying for the sats, and then taking them in front o

the cover of sports illustratged for the second straight week. coach jim harbaugh is again on the cover.this time he's facing off against his brother john.who coaches the ravens. john is 15 months older than jim. this is the first time two brothers who are head coaches will face off against each other in the super bowl. the n-f-c champs celebrated their super bowl berth after their cross country flight sunday night. t-m-z published pictures of star quarterback colin kaepernick and other niners teammates in a san jose club.motif night club. kaepernick was wearing a red beanie. couple other shots of him. kap apparently was getting so much attention and the crowd around him got so big, he had to go up to a private area. back-up q-b alex smith was also in the club. you can see teammate delanie walker there in the back. lineman ricky jean francois was wide eyed and ready to party after the big win. some players ordered bottles of champagle - little cristal. tmz reports it was a pretty tame party - mostly sipping champagne and toasting the nfc title. the d-j at the club apparently intro

controversy including jim harbaugh? that's coming up a little bit later on. allen, you need a pen? >> forget the pens. you're getting free jambalaya? >> you know the media. you know how the media operates. free food? we're all over it. >> thank you. >>> dennis is going to bring us live reports from new orleans all week. vern glenn, michelle griego, also there. and in a few minutes, we are going to hear from mike sugerman, who is on the road to new orleans tonight. >>> new at 6:00, we are in the middle of a particularly nasty flu season. this year, many bay area hospitals are strictly enforcing a new mandate that healthcare workers get flu shots or wear a mask at work. cbs 5 reporter ann notarangelo shows us how it's working. >> reporter: prior to this year if you worked in healthcare in contra costa county, getting the flu shot was voluntary but this year the county health department mandated employees either get the shot or -- >> or while they are working in patient care areas to wear a surgical mask. >> reporter: at sutter delta medical center in antioch, as of november 96% of the staff go

we, as television viewers of the debate may have missed? >> it is one thing from jim's book, you may miss the moment, on television. i don't think -- i think the one impression, for the same reason, i had no idea that all ryan was 753 glasses of water. this was like a saturday night live skit. i thought, i am so thirsty. these guys are talking and they have had no water. i do not think that i missed this. one thing that happens in the debates is the candidates come in, and they are ready for what ever debate that they are ready for. i think that joe biden thought that this would be a little bit more contentious. it took him awhile to get adjusted to that. i thought that this was a very interesting thing, to realize that. that this was happening with the candidates. what would you get to see those rehearsals? >> now that i have thought about this at this very moment, i don't think obama was prepared for what romney was doing. i was not -- >> having done this three times, you cover all the people that you interview in these presidential debates, what do you pick up, and what are the in

, jim. jim has outlined the process of how we will begin. i will start with reminding this body of the specific provisions that are contained in our charter and bylaws that guide the election of offices for the party. after that, my co-chair will come back to the podium and then review with this body what we are specifically recommending to govern these elections today. first, i shall remind this body that the rules of procedures contain the following key provisions. first, that candidates for any dnc office position had to file a nomination statement with the dnc secretary by 8 p.m. sunday, january the 20th, 2012, and that included -- sorry, 2013. that really would have been a problem. >> yeah. [laughter] >> that included signatures of at least 20dnc members. each candidate for chair is entitled to a total of ten minutes for nominating and seconding speeches to be divided among no more than four speakers, all of whom must be dnc members. each candidate for the other officer position shall be entitled to a total of five minutes for nominating and seconding speeches which may be divided

of the customer may be gown. all in all, a tough own, a tough hold, alas, a shame. >> jim, you sort of said it and added last night, don't let this stock become the eclipse that blinds you to everything else going on. >> you can't. the company's conference call was radically opposite of what everyone was thinking. and the company just kept going back to that mantra, listen, we have the best product. we don't really need to defend ourselves. and i think that what was happening was the analysts were viciously, viciously trying to figure out you can as the call was going on, what do you pay for a company with waning growth? what do you pay for a company not as loved by the customer anymore? the answer is we got to pay what we pay for intell, what we pay for cisco, what we pay for microsoft. >> a lot of investors trying to figure that out this morning as well. and their price targets, could care less at this point about that the construct is 150 bucks a share in cash, $44 a share in earnings this year. obviously lower than had been anticipated. what kind of a multiple do you put on it?

day. host: this is from twitter -- host: jim is our last caller on immigration, from louisville, ky. caller: mexican cartels, it is estimated that they make something like $2 billion per year on the illegals coming here. recently we just had a couple months ago our little house in kentucky, there was a mexican and two mexican women there. they found $1 million in cash and drugs in the house. they understand, the police were afraid to try to show their faces too much on television because they thought they might have some mexican cartel coming after them. this is really -- i just think there is a criminal element in all of this and something needs to be done. host: do you have any ideas of how you would tackle that? caller: first thing i would do, we had a storm here in town, it was like $175 million. there were all of these illegal immigrants in here working. the way that they do it is, they send all of those crews out to the jobs, they never have anyone from the company go out there, that way they cannot say -- well, i have seen it illegals out there working -- i have seen illegals

sudden it's we just can't get to first base or with a touchdown or something. jim? >> do you think the white house speech writers have ruined presidential eloquence? [laughter] >> uh, that's a good question. i mean, they've had them all along, so there are some people who would argue that some of the best stuff was written by speech writers. there's a question of whether or not eisenhower actually wrote military industrial complex, or was it really malcolm moos who was one of his aides? maybe they've homogenized it. maybe, maybe that's the -- i mean, i still think there's got to be some degree of spontaneity. i think probably to speech writer passed on -- when obama said snowmageddon which was an obvious blend of snow and armageddon which, you know, you can concede, of course, that it probably just popped out of his head. and i think a lot -- but, again, they may have, they sort of dumbed them down to some degree. i think, you know, president obama, actually "the washington post" last summer ran a list of about 20 of his slogans, and they're all just dead fish. i mean, together we win,

me take a break here, and let's open it up, and let's start right over here. >> jim bixler. lots of economists such as your friend rudy dornbush from mit that you mentioned, are believers that competition is the hallmark of a country thriving, growing including jobs, etc. and lots of economists even before the euro was instituted argued that they needed europe more competition rather than a coordinated currency, etc. and they predicted bad woes for europe under the euro. you've mentioned a lot of the problems on the flip side of competition, namely regulation. give us your perspective in terms of competition, regulation and the euro and government coordination. >> i think it's a very good question. a lot needs to be done there. and i think that at the time that the euro was put together and my good friend bob mundell -- professor at columbia, nobel prize winner -- had different views of how it was going to work out than what's happened. that was not in his idea book, because you've had tremendous regulation there. you need more deregulation. there's no doubt about it. in order to ge

is set. a family affair you could call the har-bowl, pitting jim harbaugh against his older brother, which i didn't know, john, head coach of the baltimore ravens. >> going to be a good one. in the nfc, the 49ers overcame a 17-0 deficit against the dirty birds of atlanta. they finally locked it up for good in the fourth quarter when quarterback colin kaepernick found frank gore who rushed into the end zone. final score, 28-24. quite a game. >> in the afc, baltimore ravens quarterback joe flacco threw three touchdowns in the second half. the final blow was when the ravens' carey williams picked off tom brady in the end zone. it was the patriot's first-ever playoff championship loss at home. the final score, 28-13, ravens. >> and the super bowl in new orleans. one of our favorite cities in two weeks. it's crazy. you have the brother versus brother dynamic. and then ray lewis, his final season. got to the super bowl. willis is happy. >> that's a good story. i lived in baltimore for a couple of years. >> you worked for the ravens? >> yeah. my very good friend is the mayor, stephanie rol

today's world. henry kissinger, jim baker, i think jim schlesinger, former secretaries of defense, many others have all agreed with that as a goal for the world. it's a goal. it's an aspiration. we should always be aspirational, but it's not something that could happen in today's world, nor could any leader today sit here or any other chair and promote to you the notion that we ought to be cutting down our deterrent level below an adequate level to maintain deter -- deterrence. the military has very strong views about what that is. we have cut down to some 1,500. there is talk of going down to a lower number. i think personally it's possible to get there if you have commensurate levels of inspections, verification, abouf your nuclear stockpile program, etc. now, senator, i know you are deeply invested in that component of it. the nuclear stockpile proposal. i made -- we can come to some of that maybe later in the hearing here, but i believe we have to maintain that. because that's the only way you maintain an effective level of deterrence. and the russians, certainly, are thinking in te

brothers john harbaugh, who is coaching the baltimore ravens, against jim harbaugh coaching the san francisco 49ers. both teams have touched down. when they got here first, he at the podium, very stone faced. happy to be here, stone faced here to win the game. what we'll do on gridiron. john harbaugh, when he hit the podium, he says we're happy to be here, having a good time. so obviously the older brother, john harbaugh, the more laid back one. never had to talk about the parents' press conference at any super bowl in the past, but we have that this year. coming up tomorrow, jack and jackie harbaugh, the parents of john and jim, married for 51 years, will have their own press conference so we can fin out where they are watching the game, who they are rooting for, who they are rooting against, how do they hanel having both sons in the big game? all of the questions answered tomorrow during their press conference. and on friday, the harbaugh brothers will have a joint press conference. >> i'm telling you right now, if i were one of the parents, i would be wearing a big hat, hiding be

, there was an objection from the republican side. i looked over. it was former senator jim bunning of kentucky. i object he said. so i stood up. i said you know, identified the senator for the record. i said i'm going to keep renewing that request every hour so senator bunning you better stay on the floor. so that went on for hours. five, six hours, into the night. he got angrier and angrier. at one point he said listen, i'm missing the kentucky basketball game because of this. he said that on the floor. the point i'm getting to is we change the rules so if you want to stop the senate, you have to be there. you get one quorum call, that's it. you better be there. if you're not we're moving on to business. that really puts some pressure on those who just want to stop things and we've seen 400 filibusters. we need more, i hope we don't but if we do, i think we can muster the democrats to bring the constitutional option up again. >> bill: quickly what are -- you come from chicago. i saw mayor rahm emanuel again deploring the easy access and availability of guns in chicago and the huge

super bowl, winning coach is going to be a guy named harbaugh. jim of the 49ers or john of the ravens. carlos diaz shows us it's not the only guarantee this sunday. city of new orleans a big winner as well. >> reporter: whatever the final score turns out to be sunday, there's one clear winner in the big easy, the city of new orleans itself. the big game means big bucks. and the crowds are already here celebrating and spending. >> it is good food no matter where you go. good drink no matter where you go. good people. they're so hospitable, welcoming and friendly and can't beat the weather. >> reporter: hosting super bowl xlvii inspired $1.3 billion in infrastructure improvements including downtown sidewalks, enhancements at the superdome, and more than $11 million of road repairs in the french quarter. >> i think this is just another building block into new orleans being rebuilt and becoming really a city of the 21st century where everybody would want to be. >> reporter: lewis armstrong international airport a massive makeover under way. everything from the rest rooms to the runways ha

. henry kissinger, jim baker, james schlesinger, many others have all agreed with that as a goal for the world. it is an aspiration. we should always be aspirational. but it is not something that can happen in today's world nor could any leader today sit here or in any other chair and promote the notion that we should be cutting down our deterrent levels before inadequate levels to maintain deterrence. the military has strong views about what that is. we have cut down some 1500 now. there is talk of going down to a lower number. i think it is possible to get their, if you have commensurate levels of inspections, verification, and guarantees about the capacity of your nuclear stockpile program. i know you are deeply invested in that component. clicking come to some of that may be later in the hearing. i believe we have to maintain that. -- we can et to some of that may be later in the hearing. i believe we have to maintain that. hegel ishink senator sitting there or will go to the defense department and be a proponent. this is talking about conflict resolution, changes that have to ta

in china? >> surprisingly somewhat because it was an old movie, "titanic". jim cameron went back and released it in 3d all over the world. they didn't see it first time. it was new. and it was "titanic". it was a similar reaction to the rest of the world had the first time which was really surprising to us and to the whole chinese film industry. liz: i remember when "avatar" came out three or four years ago. you and i were sitting in davos and how chinese were scalping imax tickets for 90 you can s just to see this movie. is there behavior still there? is there a premium people will pay in imax and more? >> the good news for the chinese people and us it is not $90 anymore but the average ticket price is north of $15 a ticket. because we have 100 theaters in china right now we have so many more where we're selling those $15 tickets than where we sold the $90 tickets. that was only 13 theaters four years ago. liz: international box-office performance year-over-year was essentially flat. do you think the 2013 film slate, among them, man of steel. you have the next "hunger games" install

, jim, p.j. crowley, steve hadley, and i don't think walter isakson is here. brian michael jenkins, names you all know. phil mudd, eric olson, dan, guy swan, evan wolf, it's an amazing list. you know, it is a tribute to you, my friend, because all these people care about homeland security and value the opportunity to help advise. that's great. questions? right here. red jacket. please identify yourself. >> hi, rachel oswald, global security news wire. secretary, can you tell us how close your department is to meeting congress' mandate that 100% of foreign cargo be scanned when it comes into the country? you're operating under extension due up, i believe, to close in summer 2014, and, also, could you tell us about any projects at the dndo office is working on? any new nuclear technology? >> i looked into the issue thoroughly, as did my predecessor, secretary chertoff. it's one of those things as we learn to manage risk, mandates like that sound good, but in point of fact, are extrouter their -- extraordinarily expensive when there's better and more efficient ways to accomplish the s

think how you get down to a number of today's world. henry kissinger, jim baker, i think james lassiter, former former secretary of defense, many others have all agreed with that icicle for the world. it's a goal, an aspiration that we should always be aspirational. but it's not something that can happen in today's world and nor could any leader today sit here or in any other chair and promote to you and ocean we had to cut down our deterrent level below an adequate level to maintain deterrence. we have strong views about what that is. we've cut down some 1500 the talk of going down to a lower number. i think are selling is possible to get better if you have comments or at levels of inspections, verification company guarantees about the capacity of your nuclear stock buyout program, et cetera. senator, i know you're deeply invested in that component of it. we can come to some about leader in the hearing, but i believe we have to maintain that. that's the only way you maintain an effective level of deterrence and the russians certainly think in terms of their adequacy, which is one of th

. host: arizona gov. jim brewer. here is a comment on twitter. here is a story from local tv station wbtv in charlotte about this. it says the idea to eliminate an income tax is enticing, but if it does away the state will have to raise the sales tax. it is an idea gaining popularity with republican leaders. send us a tweet and tell us what say you are from and what you are talking about and what you have to share with us. that is @cspanwj. jamie is up next on the independent line. caller: good morning. i would like to preface by setting, can i have enough time to get my point across? we have a new governor who left congress as a member of the tea party caucus, which was headed by the likes of michelle bachman. i am pessimistic about our future at this point in time because we are pretty much being overtaken by tea partyism. the republican party could have taken over the senate if not for more -- richard burr doctor was able to run richard lugar it way from the senate. we had a democrat that was able to reach across the aisle and get things accomplished. the tea party do does seem to

at least one american who thinks about iran 24/7, jim mathis, the head of central command. of course, for his obsession he's being asked to retire early. but while he's in command, you know, arguably he's been letting other parts of his area of operations be the bill payers for that. when you look at it from the position of the u.s. navy, it's not pivoting to the pacific, it's parking its aircraft carriers either in the persian gulf or in the open waters off the persian gulf. that's where the navy is to the, or -- is today, or at least the high-end navy. so it's not part of our, you know, i mean, again, we are happy to look the other way, but it just shows you that with the limited overall size of our force today and the limited amount of military resource we have, we are not fully resourcing afghanistan or doing any of the other things that perhaps we should be doing or ought to at least be able to do across the greater middle east. neither are we switching, pivoting to the pacific. okay? so when you only have, you know, a single chip to play, that iranian danger actually ris

? i find it hard to think how you can get down to a number in today's world. henry kissinger, jim baker, james schlesinger, many others have all agreed with that as a goal for the world. it is an aspiration. we should always be aspirational. but it is not something that can happen in today's world nor could any leader today sit here or in any other chair and promote the notion that we should be cutting down our deterrent levels before inadequate levels to maintain deterrence. the military has strong views about what that is. we have cut down some 1500 now. there is talk of going down to a lower number. i think it is possible to get their, if you have commensurate levels of inspections, verification, and guarantees about the capacity of your nuclear stockpile program. i know you are deeply invested in that component. we can get to some of that may be later in the hearing. i believe we have to maintain that. i don't think senator hegel is sitting there or will go to the defense department and be a proponent. this is talking about conflict resolution, changes that have to take place